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With all the intense drama and historical detail of her original New York Times bestselling Calder series, Janet Dailey returns to 1900s Montana and the challenges war and Prohibition brought to the frontier. Adding Romeo and Juliet-style romance to compelling landowner and family rivalries, Dailey brings fresh life to the story of America's westward expansion. 1919, Blue Moon, Montana. With the Great War over and the country on the brink of Prohibition,...

The enmity of a deranged mind causes a young woman to face the greatest challenge in her life. Alana is a very young woman, unblessed in physical attributes. When her cousin, Iliamna, comes to live with her family, it sparks within Alana a deep-seated hatred and a burning desire to rid herself of a woman far more beautiful. The result of Alana's actions cause Iliamna to face more trials in her young life than she's ever faced before.

She wants adventure. He needs a place to belong.Ada Clara Miller is the new schoolteacher in Tombstone. Her desire for independence stems from her brother's tales of the west. But she never expected to find herself torn between two men-one who promises safety and security, the other's future is uncertain and offers excitement.Though Francis "Slim" Dagley is determined that he will not become involved with a woman of privilege, Ada's fiery personality...

Brandon and Amanda are ready for their "Happily Ever After". This Christmas will be a time to share with their little family and maybe experience some much needed peace on earth.That's when the letter comes. And everything is turned upside-down. Nothing is as it should be and tensions mount. Will they make it through this holiday season unscathed? Or will they be torn apart by the time Christmas Day comes?

Love, Theodosia is a smart, funny, swoony take on a fiercely intelligent woman (Aaron Burr's daughter, Theodosia) with feminist ideas and ideals far ahead of her time. Not only a work of well-researched historical fiction, but, a refreshing spin on the Hamiltonian era and the characters we have grown to know and love so well. Goldstein shines a bright light on Theodosia, who has long deserved center stage, a young woman struggling to be heard in a...

Moira St. Clair has done exactly what her father forbade her to do: chased her dreams to sing on the stage. But even as her star rises, she becomes more vulnerable to those who wish to use her—or bring her down....

It is 1886, and the St. Clairs are living out their dreams in three very separate parts of the world—Paris, Brazil and Colorado. And while each has found a measure of success and joy, each is haunted by past sins and secrets.Once

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When a simple touch can hurt or heal, do they dare take a chance on love? LaRisa spent her life as the town outcast. Whispered to be a witch, she grew and sold healing herbs to the very people that shunned her. Because of the gift she was cursed with at birth, she fears touching others. She knew she was destined to be a spinster as well. Until she meets a man that isn't afraid of her. The beautiful auburn haired witch instantly enchanted Strykes,...

Keeping their hearts hidden seems like the only choice…Kathryn Rollins, heiress to the Rollins shipping fortune, sees her life slip away from her when her father promises her hand in marriage to his partner in the shipping business. Desperate to escape and have some say in her own future, she responds to an ad for a mail order bride and boards the train to Colorado as plain Kate Rush, a young maid servant from a poor family who would be a good match...

Serena Percy is no believer, but the psychic knew things no one else could have known. When Lady Serena and her brother learn that their parents' killers fled to the Americas, they cross the ocean to a new land. But before they can unravel the dark threads of the conspiracy, a familiar face finds them. Vincent Mandeville, twice betrayed and drunk on all the whiskey in Ireland, arrives in the United States and pursues Serena at his first sight of her....

In Landry, Wyoming, outspoken, bossy Dr. Bea Inseldorf secretly longs for a home and family of her own. She fills her life with caring for everyone else instead. Widower Tate Reed is filled with bitterness and refuses to celebrate Christmas- his wife died in childbirth at the holiday several years ago. His young daughter misses her mother but also her father, who is no longer the happy, loving man he used to be. Four days of isolation together in...